This paper reviews the development of ‘high tech’ companies in the Cambridge area and examines some of the factors which are believed to have encouraged these developments. It identifies the characteristics which attract able young engineers to work for these companies and points to some lessons which manufacturing industry may learn from the ‘Cambridge phenomenon’.
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The Cambridge Phenomenon and the subsequent follow-up report Strategic planning implications of high technology growth, 1985 (Both can be purchased from Segal Quince Wicksteed, Mount Pleasant House, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge).
